Sign up for School Library Journal’s FREE, on-demand webcast series on how the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are impacting your library, your school, and your students.
In these 6 one-hour webcasts, library, literacy, and education experts from across the country explore how to effectively implement this nationwide initiative. You will emerge more able than ever to navigate the Core’s challenges, to make the most of the opportunities it brings, and to be a leader in your institution.
PART 1: Getting Real: Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle
Sponsored by: School Library Journal, Crabtree, Follett, Junior Library Guild, Lerner Digital, National Geographic, Norwood House, Rosen Publishing, Scholastic Library Publishing
How do the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) impact you, your library, and your teachers? Marc Aronson and Sue Bartle will discuss how perspective, multi-modality, and transliteracy will help you build a foundation as you implement CCSS. Take home a few concrete examples to successfully adjust to the instructional shifts in CCSS.
The New York City Department of Education Office of Library Services is at the forefront of a movement to clarify the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the profession. Olga Nesi, a regional coordinator at the NYC DOE Library Services, will lead a discussion on the challenges and opportunities the CCSS present for librarians, the role of the profession in supporting the goals of the initiative, and the workshops she and her colleagues have been conducting around the state.
How do we build on students’ knowledge and skills across grade levels? In this session we’ll explore questions related to text complexity, gathering evidence, the research process, and designing assignments with real-world connections.
PART 4: Pathways to Engaged Readers: Helping Students Reach Common Core Levels
Sponsored by: School Library Journal, Capstone, and Bound to Stay Bound Books.
Join Mary Ehrenworth, the Deputy Director at the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, and co-author of Pathways to the Common Core, as she explores creating a school culture of reading, the challenges and methods for getting just-right books into kids’ hands, increasing nonfiction engagement, and building structures for clubs and parent involvement through the central core of a school’s reading life— the library.
PART 5: The Common Core and the Public Librarian
Sponsored by: School Library Journal, Lerner Publishing Group, and Bound to Stay Bound Books
School librarians across the country have been actively engaged in implementing the Common Core State Standards. More recently public librarians have joined the conversation, asking their colleagues what they need to know about the initiative and how it will affect collection development, homework help, and reference service. Join us for a chat with Olga M. Nesi, a regional coordinator with the New York City Department of Education, Division of Library Services, and Nina Lindsay, Children’s Services Coordinator at the Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA as they explore the ways in which today’s professionals in public libraries are being called on to serve students in their libraries in light of the Common Core.
PART 6: Serving the CCSS and Youth
Sponsored by: School Library Journal, Lerner Publishing Group
What resources do librarians have in their collections that meet the goals of the Common Core initiative? How will the Common Core State Standards influence the decisions school and public librarians will be making as they continue to develop their collections? What specifically should educators be looking for in the resources they select? Join Kathleen Odean, librarian, speaker, reviewer, university instructor, and the author of guides to children’s titles as she discusses the books that engage children and meet the goals of the CCSS.